The recepie in its most common form requires lamb,mutton or beef to make stew, depending on your budget.
Lamb is typically the key ingredient in Suffolk stew.
Because it tastes good. (:
I would think it's too good for stew. Better marinated and fried lightly.
chicken
In Ireland, potatoes are eaten with most meals. Stew containing meat, potatoesand/or celery and carrots. Lamb is partically popular for a meat. Buttermilk is also popular and is used in may things including Irish pancakes, which are smaller and thicker then normal pancakes. Desserts are often served with cream and during winter, dinner is traditionally eaten with a very small shot of Irish whiskey.
That poor orphan Irish children be used as meat to alleviate the starvation in Ireland. A kind of "kill two birds with one stone" type thing.
steak
they have meat and soup and they have stew for their meals in the Tudor times that is what they have in the Tudor times.
Many types of food can be stewed, but most tradiontionally it would be cheaper cuts of meats and vegetables. Cheaper cuts of meat tend to be lower quality, so stewing makes them tender and gives an oppurtunity to add flavors for the meat to absorb as it cooks.
Its made of a thick complex of meat usually from animals, sometimes not.
Chicken
rump roast